My Military Career in a Parallel World

Chapter 262 Flood, letter of challenge!

"Tomorrow is the weekend. What are your plans? Why don't you ask the company commander to let us play some games in the computer room?"

"Come on, it's only a short while each time, what's the fun in it? I can't even enjoy playing a game. Last time, I played CS online with the class next door, and we were about to win, but we were dragged out on a business trip to move things. It was so annoying."

"Indeed, we only give one hour each time. Before we even start playing, the time is almost up."

Others also started to complain.

It's not everyone's fault. It's mainly because life in the recruit camp is really too boring for these veterans.

Apart from training with the new recruits every day, they spend most of their time reading in the dormitory.

It’s not that they love learning so much, but that they all know very well where their weaknesses are.

The three months in the boot camp are a time for new recruits to improve their physical fitness and adapt to the rhythm of military life. It is also a time for veterans like them to make up for their shortcomings.

There is no such thing as graduating from a military academy without passing the assessment.

This applies to both local students and those who are recommended for promotion.

If you fail to pass the final assessment, don’t even think about graduating and receiving a degree.

So, even though everyone was very unhappy, Jiang Chen, as the class monitor, still required them to read and study every day.

"Monitor, please say something. Let us relax on the weekend. I feel like I'm going crazy from reading all day."

Jiang Chen closed the College English book in his hand, turned his head to look at everyone and sighed: "Don't think about it. The camp has been holding meetings every day recently. Let alone the company commander, I haven't seen our platoon leader for several days."

In fact, Jiang Chen was also quite puzzled. He had been a platoon leader in the reconnaissance company before. Apart from the weekly meetings, he spent most of his time leading the team in training.

Although the military academy's recruit camp cannot be completely equated with the army, it should be roughly the same.

This cannot be blamed on Jiang Chen’s lack of experience. It is simply that he has been in the army for too short a time and has not experienced many things.

If it were a veteran who had been in the army for seven or eight years, especially a veteran who had served in the South for a long time, he would have guessed what had happened long ago.

In fact, someone in Class 5 has already guessed the correct answer.

Flood!

There is plenty of water in the south, and this happens to be the Yangtze River Basin. As a historical city, Jinling naturally does not have to worry about flood disasters. However, it is hard to say about other villages, towns, counties and cities along the coast.

The rain has not stopped in the past few days, and it seems to be getting heavier.

As early as a day ago, nearby military regions and surrounding troops had already begun action.

Military trucks loaded with soldiers drove out of the barracks and headed in all directions against the wind and rain. At the same time, a document was delivered to the office of the principal of the Army Command College.

The next day, Saturday.

After breakfast, each squad leader went to the warehouse to get their cell phones as usual, and within two minutes the entire dormitory building was in chaos.

"There's a flood near my home. My mom told me that our land is about to be submerged!"

"It's the same at my house. My dad just said on the phone that people are fishing on the streets of the county town. In some places, the drainage can't keep up, so people can even use fishing rods to fish!"

Many students in the south received calls from home saying that floods had occurred in their hometowns.

"Fuck, is it that serious? Where are you from?!"

"It's the province next to Jinling..."

It has been raining since the National Day. The first few days were actually not too bad as the rain was not too heavy.

However, after it cleared up for two days and then started raining again on Monday this week, the rain has been getting heavier day by day. Combined with the previous impact, the drainage systems in many places have been completely paralyzed. A large amount of rainwater has accumulated in the urban streets and cannot be discharged. The water level of rivers has risen sharply, and signs of flood disasters have appeared in many places.

Before, everyone was training every day and had no way to contact the outside world, so no one knew what was going on.

Now that I finally got a cell phone, I was just about to call home to report I was safe when I learned about the flood in my hometown.

The news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, until the entire dormitory building was in chaos. Many students from provinces near Jinling who had called but were unable to contact their parents were almost crying in desperation.

If it weren’t for the class monitor comforting them, these students would probably have tried to find a way back home in the heavy rain.

Jiang Chen was still using the same brick phone that didn't have internet access, so he could only borrow the smartphone from deputy squad leader Zhang Wuqiang to learn more about the flood through the Internet.

This flood was far more serious than he had imagined.

It didn't seem to rain much here, and the weather was sunny for a few days, but other places were not so lucky.

Heavy rains for more than half a month have caused the water levels of rivers and lakes in many places to exceed their historical peaks early. Some river embankments and dams that were built in the 1960s and 1970s have even collapsed.

Those that didn't collapse were not much better, with some degree of flooding/leaking. In many villages, towns and county towns, just as Jiang Chen and his friends had heard before, people could row boats into the river to fish in the city streets.

"Lao Wang, have you ever participated in disaster relief before?"

Jiang Chen put down his phone, turned his head and asked Wang Hai.

Wang Hai looked at the floodwater on his phone screen that had already overflowed the roof of the car, nodded solemnly, and said, "I participated in a flood rescue operation with the army two years ago, but the situation was not as serious as it is now!"

Jiang Chen didn't want to ask this. He interrupted Wang Hai and said directly: "Then you should know how to apply for flood relief, right?"

Wang Hai was stunned and subconsciously raised his head, and saw that everyone in the dormitory was looking at him.

Apparently, everyone thinks so too.

They are soldiers!

Raise an army for a thousand days, use it for a while.

Now that the country and the people are in danger, it's their turn to take the stage!

The same topic also occurred in the other two soldier classes.

Not only the soldier class, but also people from the cadet class want to participate in the flood relief and rescue.

However, compared to veterans like Jiang Chen, the new recruits in the cadet class probably would not agree even if they wanted to go.

In the dormitory of Class 5.

Wang Hai paused for a moment and without hiding anything, told everything he knew.

"Okay, I'll write a letter of request now!"

After getting the reply, Jiang Chen nodded, opened the drawer without further ado, took out a piece of letter paper and started writing.

"Squad leader, add me in!" Zhang Wuqiang walked to the table and said softly.

Jiang Chen nodded without replying, but silently added Zhang Wuqiang's name to the letter of request for battle.

"Sergeant, count me in too!" Zhang Tao followed closely behind.

"I'll go too!" Liu Meng said immediately.

"And I!"

"Add me one!"

……

"Hey, what are you all doing? You're making me look like a coward. Squad leader, count me in as one of the volunteers!"

"Hey, squad leader, why don't you just represent all of us and write it together, so we don't have to write it one by one, which is troublesome..."

As Wang Hai finished speaking, none of the twelve soldiers in the dormitory of Class 5, including Jiang Chen, backed down, and all of them asked to join the flood relief mission...

Jiang Chen was lying on the table writing a letter of request to fight when there was a sudden knock on the dormitory door. Everyone subconsciously turned their heads and saw the monitor of the third class next door standing at the door looking at them.

"Squad Leader Jiang, you guys..."

Guessing why the third squad leader came over at this time, Jiang Chen put down his pen and stood up, and the two of them stood at the dormitory door.

Jiang Chen was the first to speak: "I heard that there was a severe flood outside. The guys in our class couldn't stand the loneliness, and each of them wanted to take the initiative to volunteer to participate in flood relief."

As he spoke, Jiang Chen turned his head and glanced at the people in Class 5 behind him.

Everyone smiled as well.

"That's good. I came here to ask about this as well."

The purpose of the third squad leader's trip was just as Jiang Chen expected, which was to fight floods and rescue people.

"Now we are worried whether the higher-ups will agree to our request to join the battle?" The third squad leader said uncertainly.

"It should be no problem. We are not new recruits. Many of us have participated in flood relief missions in the company before and have rich experience in disaster relief.

It doesn't make sense that I could go when I was in the army, but now that I'm in the military academy and an officer I can't go!"

"Okay, squad leader Jiang, please wait for us for a while. I will go back and write a letter of request. Then, our three squads will go together."

"it is good!"

After the two made the agreement, Jiang Chen went back to continue writing his class's letter of request to join the battle.

Ten minutes later, in the battalion commander's office.

Jiang Chen and the other two went to look for the company commander first, but found nothing.

Then they went to find the battalion commander Hong Haijiang, but Hong Haijiang was not there either.

Not only him, the instructor and the instructors of the three companies were also absent.

Finally, after discussion, the three decided to stand at the door of the office and wait for the battalion commander and others to come back.

Then, when Hong Haijiang and the instructor just came back from the meeting at school, they saw Jiang Chen and the other two standing in a row at the door of the office like three door gods.

"Why are you three coming to my place instead of taking a break on the weekend?!"

Hong Haijiang held a water cup in one hand and a folder under his arm. He walked up to the three people and looked them up and down before finally asking.

"Report to the battalion commander, this is the letter of request from our recruits, the first platoon, the fifth squad, the first company. On behalf of all the soldiers in the class, I request to join the school's flood relief team!"

"Report, this is the letter of request from our recruits, second company, first platoon, third squad!"

"This is our letter of request for battle from the first squad, first platoon, third company of new recruits!"

The other two squad leaders also handed over their squad's letters of request to the battalion commander Hong Haijiang.

Looking at the three people in front of him, Hong Haijiang said nothing but reached out to take the letter of request for battle they handed over.

"battalion commander……"

Jiang Chen opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Hong Haijiang waved his hand and said directly: "Okay, I accept the letter of request, but I can't guarantee whether you can go. It will take the school leaders to hold a meeting and discuss before we can decide."

"Go back and wait for news. If the school really wants to organize a team to go to the disaster area, I will inform you in advance!"

After hearing what Hong Haijiang said, Jiang Chen and the other two could only swallow the rest of their words, nodded, and turned to leave.

After watching the three people leave, the instructor next to him looked at Hong Haijiang and said, "How are you going to deal with this matter?"

Hong Haijiang glanced down at the three letters of request in his hand, sighed and said, "What else can I do? I'll report to the director!"

"Will the Director agree?"

"It shouldn't be a problem. After all, they are not new recruits. If others can go, why can't they?"

"You know that's not what I meant. This is a recruit camp. What if some local students get the news and want to go with us?!"

"Then go!"

"Old Hong, you can't do this recklessly. They are all new recruits and haven't even passed the most basic training!"

"I know they are new recruits, but what's wrong with new recruits? Are new recruits not soldiers? Do new recruits not have to go to the battlefield?

From the moment they stepped into the school gate, they were no longer ordinary people!

If you can't go to the front line, can't you help move sandbags and do some work in the rear? "

Unlike others, Hong Haijiang does not think that new recruits cannot participate in flood relief and rescue operations.

In China, the army has never been just a war machine.

The meaning of a battlefield has never been just a battle between people, but also a battle between people and nature.

As a People's Liberation Army soldier, you should be mentally prepared to go to the front line at any time and devote yourself to the country and the people from the moment you join the army.

Flood control and disaster relief is also a war, a battlefield.

Just like Hong Haijiang said just now, if you can't go to the front line, can't you move sandbags and help out in the rear?

This experience of personally going to the disaster area for disaster relief is more effective than any thousand or ten thousand words said by teachers and instructors in school.

As long as they return from the disaster area, this group of new recruits will be truly trained.

They can also proudly pat their chests and say the word "soldier".

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The fact was indeed as the instructor worried. Not long after Jiang Chen and the other two left the office, other classes of students got the news.

When someone retreats, someone else will naturally step forward.

Soon, several more letters of request to join the battle were delivered to the desk of Battalion Commander Hong Haijiang.

"Nonsense!"

Looking at several senior squad leaders and the company commander, Hong Haijiang slammed the table and yelled, "I have no objection to the veterans from the army going to participate in disaster relief, but why are you local cadets joining in the fun?!

How can you be a company commander of new recruits? You know they have only been here for a month and haven't even completed basic training, so why did you bring them here?

Go back and tell them to focus on their studies and training, because it is not yet time for them to go up!"

Although Hong Haijiang had already made a decision in his mind, there were some things that he couldn't talk about directly.

If he really agrees to let this group of new recruits participate in disaster relief, believe it or not, the school leaders will talk to him immediately.

The most important point is that even if you want to go, you can't bring so many people at once.

The instructor's worries are not without reason. After all, they have only been there for a month and are not even considered new recruits. If so many people go there at once, even if the school agrees, the rescue teams and the people in the disaster area may not agree.

Don't let the time come when you fail to rescue the disaster and end up getting yourself into trouble, causing trouble for others and bringing trouble to other disaster relief teams...

Therefore, Hong Haijiang planned to arrange only one class at most.

As for who will go in the end, let the results speak for themselves.

Physical fitness is the most basic requirement.

In addition, you must be able to swim, otherwise, it will just become a nuisance.

As for Hong Haijiang's decision, the instructor, who is also one of the highest leaders of the recruit camp, finally nodded and agreed after listening to his ideas.

Then, this scene happened.

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